Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.